Question follow-through · 34684
Business: Environment Protection and Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to require regulators to help support businesses to meet their fiduciary responsibilities to (a) employees and (b) the environment.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 28 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 10 Mar 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to require regulators to help support businesses to meet their fiduciary responsibilities to (a) employees and (b) the environment.
4 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Mar 2025
Answer published
Under Section 172 of the Companies Act 2006, directors have a fiduciary duty to have regard in their decision-making to the interests of their employees and the impact of the company’s operations on the environment. Large companies must report annually on...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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